The Great Bend Register from Great Bend, Kansas • 1

i THE Bend tml THE OLD BEI I HOME PAPE BBND-OUK BE9IDBNOE THB WOBLD OUR FIELr H. A3T8 AS OPB OlBDIlf, TERMS Par To Jn Adi IRA CLABK, Editor and Proprietor. 1 Historical society GREAT BEND, KANSAS, THURSDAY DECEMBER 28, 1905 WHOLE NO, 1646 VOL XXXII NO 34 SOMETHING DOING IN 1905. The Federal Indictments and Other Things. I Topeka Capital.

TOPEKA LETTER. Claflin Clarion Sold. The Claflin Clarion has R. D. Armstrong, an attorney who Pre- dis- hands this week, Oscar O'l Dire Disaster if Prophet Spangler's dictions Work Out.

posing of the property to E. M. ington who assumes charge at by Mr. Sapp, himself. Mr.

Sapp is built that way. Some years ago, when he consented to be president of the Sunflower League, an auxiliary Democratic organization, the dollar contributions ceased after the first meeting, which also was the last, and the President supplied the rest out of his private funds. Oscar established the Clarion seven years ago and has always gotten out a bright sheet. He has a habit of speaking right out and while he not be wise at all times it is a straightforward way of doing. is here from Scott City on a Christmas visit says the people of his part of the state are in sympathy with the cattlemen and others who were included in the recent indictments by the federal grand jury for fencing in public lands.

"As a matter of fact," says Mr. Armstrong, "the cattlemen there have never undertaken to stand in the way of homesteaders. They want them and often aid them in getting in. Every homesteader who comes there and helps settle up the country advances the interests of the cattlemen by enpancting the value of their land. The fencing of government land was done for this reason and the settlers out there are heartily in favor of it.

We used to have what was called free range: that is, government land homes teaded has always been looked on as grazing land and the government has never objected to will go to the Indian Territory and engage in real estate business E. M. Hoisington, the new Clarion proprietor, is well known in Barton county, having been born and raised here. He is the oldest son of A. J.

Hoisington, and is a printer from the ground up. The Claflin people will find in him a good workman, a iroed Dec. 27. The most industrious state chairman the Democratic party of Kansas ever has had is the Honorable William Ferry Sapp, who now holds the job and pays the bills. Since the Roosevelt invasion, when so many fusionists returned to the grassroots, the Democratic party has been an unknown quantity, but what is left of it Mr.

Sapp has put into a disciplined organization that makes it a factor again in Kansas politics. Since the fusion of 862, the Democratic party has not counted for much in the ballot box. Indeed' it voted the whole Populist ticket from President down, label and all, in that cam patgn, and its only reward was a Democrat for the fragment of a term in the U. S. senate.

In 1864, a few bold spirits rescued the party from total annihilation, by nominating a state ticket, but it got less than 30,006 votes. In 1896 it surrendered to the Populists again. In 1898, the fusion Vegan to frazzel out. There was fusion, but both parties were tired of it, and the total vote fell off. Even with Bryan in the campaign of .1900, the old enthusiasm was absent, and so by slow degrees the end came.

The last was the surrender of the Populists to the Dem But "Bill" 3app can afford that sort of thing. He has the price, and when he becomes identified with a public enterprise, being a broad and generous man, it don't hurt him to go down into his pocket and give up a little of the abundance which fortune has bestowed upon him. Mr. Sapp is an odd little man, full of spirit, will and audacity, and when he undertakes a cause he is indefatigable. He weighs perhaps 125 pounds and stands about five feet five in his stockings.

To help out his stature, he wears always a frock coat and a top hat. His clothes are black to correspond with his black hair and eyes and his swarthy skin. He always has steam up, and when he is in action he is impelled by the resistless energy of a narrow-guage jecorno-tive climbing into a mountain tunnel. He never balks and he never runs away from a fight. His From the New York Herald.

Here are Spangler's prophecies for 1906: The dissolution of Russia. The overthrow of Turkey. The assassination of the Czar of Russia. The assassination of the Sultan of Turkey. The prevention of three wars by President Roosevelt.

A protracted race war in the South. Destructive eruption of Mount Ve- suvius. The activity of Mount Pelee and Popocatepetl Volcanic eruptions In all parts of the world. The eruption of many volcanoes now supposed to be extinct. Great loss of life at sea by storms.

Destruction of two Western cities by cyclones. Earthquakes in all parts of the world. Destructive earthquakes in California and the Philippines. Rebellion in Spain. Great disturbances all over Europe.

Spangler says further that the summer of 1906 will be hot and sultry throughout the temperate zone, with extensive death rate. That Christ will make His spirit felt among the peoples of the United States and England in whie countries there are to be fervent religious and potent political movements which are to overcome in a great degree the the railroad baiters, is a sign that enouj'h conservative and thoughtful especially in the senate, at least to give the subject a fair hearing. This in turn inspires the hope that the conservative element and President Roosevelt, finally, will frame a bill that will be fair to the railroads and to the public alike. The" people, thanks to the intelligent masses and the fairness of the country press, have shown a disposition to hear both sides of this important question since the last congress, and so it is fairly before the lawmakers. This publicity has been fairly put, and it has proved among other things that the issue is not a question of rates but of remedy.

The trouble is rebates. There is a law on this subject already. Strengthen it, ten fold, if necessary, but first and last enforce it. In the moderate beef fines, it has been shown that this law can be enforced, but the Interstate Commerce Commission dodges and temporizes, There are thousands of those violations, but how few have been punished This is the evil, and to cure it, it is proposed in some quarters to give to the Interstate Commerce Commission, or some other administrative body, absolute power to fix the rate, and to put that rate into effect before the courts may have opportunity to review the decision! This is a dangerous power to confer upon any administrative body. The railroads are not opposed to having their rates reviewed by a court, but they are opposed to giving to the Interstate Commerce Commission, or any such body, the power to fix rates and put them in operation before they can have a judicial hearing.

newspaper man and a fine fellow all around. He was formerly one of the editors of the Reoisteb. We welcome his return to the newspaper ranks of Barton county and hope that he and wife will find Claflin to their liking. It Pays to Advertise. An advertisement in the Daily Item and weekly Reoistkb pays, as those who have used these publications will testify.

Mrs. Woodruff, of near Seward, advertised her half section of land for sale in theee columns and got the desired result James Pritchard, of this city, purchasing the property. She writes: "Please take my advertisement out of your paper, as I have sold my farm and people keep coming to see about it I am very grateful to youM Marking the Santa Fe Trail. that so long as it was not fenced but when the country began to settle up the settlers began to object to the roaming at large of large herds of cattle which sometimes did damage to their fences and their crops The free range being no longer safe and in fact being a nuisance the cattlemen began fencing in the land they had before been using unfenced. And an- ej other thing," went on Mr Arm methods of politics sometimes may not be crthodc but he always is fair, and whenever he loses a fight, which he usually does, he is the first to extend the hand of congratulation to the other fellow.

He comes of fighting stock. His maternal grandfather was in the French revolution and a supporter of Napoleon, who afterward fell with him and sent hira in exile. Jules Ferry, once President of the French Republic, was a relative. strong, it looks a good deal like a case of snap judgement this time because always before the government has notified cattlemen to take down certain fences and given them time to act before getting into trouble. And you may as well add that I am not an attorney In any of the cases, either." Mr.

Armstrong says his town of Scott City is growing rapidly, though still only a town of 700. He says the country out there is settling up rapidly and that land is increasing in value. The Santa Fe has bought fifteen acres along its tracks adjoining the town site and Scott people believe it means a rcund house and division point on the rumored extension of the Great Bend branch to Denver. Scott City is now the end of that branch. It is about the only place where there is a good water supply between that place and Colorado and the Missouri Pacific has been putting in two big wells and tanks there and the Scott people are hoping for a Missouri Pacific division too.

present spirit of graft and commercialism. That the United States will continue a a world power and the leader of other nations. That Pennsylania is to have an administration of the people and that discoveries of corruption will be made which will drive some of the guilty to suicide. That God will wreak terrible vengeance upon the Russians for the massacre of the Jews. ocrats in 1904, and so now what is left of the old fusion is the Democratic estate.

It is this remainder that Mr. Sapp is endeavoring to put into fighting condition. If the vote of 1904 is a fair indication, the approximate strengtu of the party in the state is 90,000. That was about the vote thrown to David M. Dale for Governor.

To Parker, for President, the total thrown was 01 ly 80,000. There was so much flypaper in the St. Louis platform that 10,000 Democrats shied and passed by on the other side. What became of the missing ones never will be known, but the signs of the returns en file in the office of the Secretaty of State are that 90 per cent of them voted for Debs, Socialist, for President. The rest voted for Roosevelt, or did not vote at all.

But no matter where the Marriage Licenses. William J. Zimmet, Kinsley 22 18 Maud Meno S. A. Meller, Pawnee Rock 33 28 Pearl L.

Houdy shell Major Charles B. Peck, the elder brother of George R. Peck, who died in Texas recently, formerly lived in Kansas. He preceded his famous brother to the state two years, and settled in Lawrence, where he afterward became general superintendent of the Leavenworth, Lawrence Galveston railroad, which now is a part of the Southern Kansas division of the Santa Fe. He succeeded the Rev.

I. S. Kalloch, and continued in the position until the railroad was built to Ottawa, when he in turn was succeeded by B. F. Henning.

Kalloch and Henning died many Jessie D. Hugman, Hoisington 23 20 22 19 Lou. Ell Whitney Joseph F. Schaeffer, Lena H. Mitchell Ellinwood it Another relative was Senator Ferry of Michigan, who for a time was President Pro Tempore of the senate, and for awhile ex-officio Vice President of the United States.

Mr. Sapp is a graduate of Michigan law school. Before that he learned the hatter's trade, by the will of his father, who required all his sons to learn trades. When Mr. Sapp came to Kansas in 1879, he worked his way by mending and cleaning old hats.

The writer of this sketch first saw him in Atchison in the spring of 1879, and before he left had fixed up all the old plug hats in town. At Oswego, his canvasser stole his kit of tools, which left him stranded and his next move was to open a law office. This he did in Galena in the fall of 1879, where the writer of this sketch next ran across him. The town had just started and lead and zinc were making it boom. His sum total of clothes -vere the inevitable tall hat and frock suit and a linen Charles Ehis, Pawnee Rock 24 EdnaHGorden, .17 Smith, Dundee 30 Laura Unruh, 18 A.

A. Lowry, Hoisington 21 Mary'EFord, 21 Peck years ago, and now Major follows them. F. V. Several prominent societies of the state are interesting themselves in the marking of the Old Santa Fe Trail.

The Kansas Daughters of the American Revolution and the State Historical Socisty have the matter in charge for Kansas and they propose the placing of blocks bearinf an inscription at intervals alonf the route. The state has made a small appropriation for this purpose but it is proposed that because of the great historical interest of the Trail, that the school children be asked to contribute to the fund. Now inasmuch as this Trail passes directly through Barton county, I would suggest that in every school in the county, the afternoon of Kansas Day Jan. 20th be set apart for exercises of state historical interest especially such as relate to the Santa Fe Trail and that each pupil be asked to contribute five cents to the fund. The Trail Committee of the Great Bend Commercial Club, consisting of Ira rougher, G.

N. Moses, R. Taylor, T. Morrison, C. L.

Moses and Fd. Tyler will be the trustees of this fund. It is hoped that every teacher in the county will take an active interest in this great work, to make the marking of the Trail through Barton county of eductional value to every pupils in the schools so that every pupil will cheerfully lend a hand to enable Barton to be the first county in the state to mark this historlo highway. C. R.

Aldrich, Co. Supt. One of the holiday weddings of interest to some of our young folks is that of Joe Schaeffer, second eon of Gus Schaeffer. He was married last Tuesday to Miss Nina Mitchell of Hoisington. Joe is well known in Great Bend, having lived here all hie life until they moved to Hoisington a year ago.

Miss Mitchell has lived in Hoisington for several years and is esteemed by all who know her. They will live in Ellinwood, where Joe will be employed in the laundry business with his father. The Item extends congratulations to Mr. and Mrs Joe Schaeffer. Ira Brougher and Nick Smith returned Saturday night from the Panhandle of Texas.

They do not appear to like that country very well. Twins, a boy and a girl were born to F. V. Russell and wife Saturday evening. Vera is a great admirer of President Roosevelt and in the matter of large families is right in line with the president.

One Railroad Starts Work. Eugene Tilleux came in from Lacrosse this morning, lie states that there is a gang of men grading for the track of the Gulf, Hutchinson Northwestern railway. This Is the first dirt turned. Fifteen teams are working this week and next week there will be twenty-five. The work is being done north of Liebenthal, in Big Timber township, in Rush county, where the first bond election was held and carried.

Most of the work is being done by men living near there who have subscribed for stock. Their New Masonic Officers Annual Communication of Great Bend Lodge No. 15 A. F. A.

M. was held Friday evening, Dec. 22, 1905. The officers were all re-elected for the ensuing ear W. ML, Clarence Robert Aldrich.

S. Russel Coe Russell. J. Frank A. Moses.

Treasurer, Louis Zutavern Secretary, William Torrey. S. Daniel James Coughlin. J. Edward Russell Moses Jr.

S. S. Charles Lundblade. Letter From A. B.

Miller. Fort Dodge, Dec. 20, 1906. Editor Daily Item: Dear Sir: I promised to write and tell you and the people of Great Bend something about our new Home at Fort Dodge, Kansas. My wife and I arrived here at 4:30 p- m.

on Dec. 14 and both of us were very near played out; but thanks to the good people, the good rations, the good cook and I might say the good all around, we are feeling as well as usual this morning. Our room is No. 2 in the White Barracks or No. 5.

The room is heated by steam and we are as cosy as can be since our goods arrived and have the room fixed up to suit us. Our food is cooked in first class and we have as plenty of everything to eat as any reasonable person could ask for. The old boys and their wives have been very kind to us since we came. They try to make it pleasant for all new comers The Fort Dodge Home is just the place for old soldiers that cannot help themselves and don't get enough to live on and we are very glad indeed that we have been admitted. My wife was to circle meeting last night and she reports a real nice and sociable time.

There are 60 inmates at the Home including women and children. Our barber gives us four shaves for 25 cents. Respectfully, A. B. Miller.

i work will be credited on their stock duster. He had no money, but he was possessed of an abundance of good nature and thereby was able to hire a room and to borrow a copy of the Statutes of Kansas, a chair, and a coal oil lamp. With this outfit began his career in Kansas. It was a hard pull, but he was equal to it, and soon he was at the front. Naturally he became interested in mines, and if they have not made him rich alreadv deserters went in 1904, the most the Democratic party can connt upon for the reorganization is 90,000.

Even some of these may not stick for surely the fusion carried some Populists to the Democratic party that year, and, until a Populist is tried and tested in more than one campaign, there is no telling what he may be when he goes into a polling booth with his pencil and his God. Mr. Sapp, however, is strong in the faith that his successor in the chairmanship will find an enrolled and disciplined army of 90,000 at least ready for battle in 1906. He really looks for more, but only the ballot boxes of the next campaign may prove that, and so he will check up only 90,000 to his successor. To make this possible, Mr.

Sapp has kept the state headquarters open in Topeka ever since the close of the campaign of 1904. He has been here some of the time and his motley has lecn he all the time. Mr. Pepperill, the Secretary of the Committee, also has been here part of the time. The clerk has not lost a day since the election of 1904, nd so, by correspondence and by keeping the voters supplied with Democrate literature, the state committee keeps in touch with the local organizat ions.

To keep their work going, of course money is necessary. Some of it comes from old line Democrats who can afford it and want the faith kept, but the most of it is put up subscriptions. T. J. Hostetler, of 1 Hutchinson, has charge of the gang.

Russell, A mile and a half of grade has been J. Henry Weirauch. Finance Committee, R. C. F.

A. Moses, D. J. Coughlin. started, about a mile being completed, Seventeen miles are to be graded this time.

Hutchinson Independent. Trustees, E. C. Cole, F. V.

Russell, A. H. Connett, C. G. Morrison, M.

Eppstein. Herbert J. Woodward was in town tuev nave put hm: tne way Alter tne meeting wie newiy eiecu- 1 WHnariv Hp ha Iran in Hoisinar- it. His townsman, F. B.

Scher merhorn, a Republican, ed officre invited the brethren to the montn putting up banquet room to participate in re-! cable lines for the Hoisington Tele-freshmente and the enjoyment of the phone Co. The Republican regrets of the State Board pf Charities says his income from a zine trad: of 40 acres is $2,000 i- month. Dleasant evening will not soon be to see him leave here permanently as he was one of the most agreeable and competent men on the Lyons Telephone. He goes to Oswego to spend the Christmas holidays with his parents. Lyons Republican.

orgotten, The families of Willis and Otis Bolinger and Charles Lundblade and wife went to infield to eat Christmas dinner with the family of Ernest Bolinger. The signs are that out ot the mass of measures and remedies proposed for the ci usideraticn of congress a fair railr ad bill will be What chances a few years make. the Two years ago there was not a rural Miss Flo Bunting fell down 1UIUJCU' coogrei Mrs. Finney, or Sterling, is free delivery route in Barton county and no rural telephones. Now we have sixteen routes and telephone to rush pellmeh into a discussion.

visiting her parents. A. L. DeLa- stairs in the post office block Sunday night and broke an arm and hurt the other badly. It was a bad fall and also the -family of of the issue at the operruag of the session, -while a disappointment to Bead the Register for 1906.

Tergne and wife, rJ XL rJttUtiaOD. I lines are run all over the county. i aba was seriously hurt..